Frontier Village collection 1961-1980.

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Frontier Village collection 1961-1980.

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This collection is comprised of administrative records, employee manuals, photographs, clippings, various printed material, plans and drawings, and scrapbooks of Frontier Village amusement park. Exactly when this collection was donated by Frontier Village is unknown. The collection has been with San Jose Public Library since the early 1990s and probably since the 1980s.

10.5 linear feet (23 boxes, 3 map boxes).

San Jose Public Library, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7492320

San Jose Public Library, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library

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San Jose Public Library. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. California Room.

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Frontier Village (San Jose, Calif. : Amusement park)

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Frontier Village was a western-themed amusement park which opened on October 21,1961 and closed on September 28, 1980. It was located on approximately 30 acres of what had previously been part of the Hayes estate (an estate owned by a prominent political and newspaper publishing family in the Santa Clara Valley) on Monterey Highway in San Jose, California. It was started by Joseph Zukin Jr., a Palo Alto entrepreneur and small businessman, after he and his family visited Disneyland in 1959. Zukin...